Adventures of Health, Wellness and Balanced Lifestyle

I haven't written in a VERY long time, been having way too much fun doing me things.  In the past months Ive really figured out who I am.  Id like to make this post inspiring to all ages of life.   Over the past 4 or 5 years Ive changed drastically as a person.  I had no idea who I really was in 2013, I was going through a divorce, I was forced to stand on my own and I was forced to figure out who I was and what I wanted out of life.  In 2013 I started this journey when I started to date my now husband.  I needed to loose some weight but I also wanted to be confident in myself.  Walking into the gym I always wanted to be with someone leading the way, when my husband wouldn't ever work out with me it instantly became clear this wasn't about him this was about me!  I had a personal trainer for about a year and in that year though I learned how to lift I never saw gains until I worked out FOR MYSELF BY MYSELF. To this day though I like helping people work out, thats my alone

After much debating in my own head space I finally decided that Id write about this topic, not because Im an expert in relationships but because I find it important. Jonathan and I got married October 9th 2015 in Pennsylvania, the weeks before our wedding we had a date night planned once a week which gave me horrible anxiety about what we would be going to do or if he'd like doing it with me and vice versa.  So when I talked to him about this it ended up in an argument, saying things like you don't want to try new things ect ect.  Its not that, Im a rather simple person basically FEED ME and LOVE ME FOR ME. So we scratched date night planning and planning one all together turning it into just spending time together.  We go grab dinner or hang out at home, he helps me around the house when I clean which generally ends up in some silly comments or he'll text me when Im at the farm riding silly stuff or our new thing is texting GIFS.  My point here is no matter what you'

 I haven't written in awhile not because I haven't wanted too or I had no good ideas I just simply haven't allowed myself the time.  It hasn't been a huge priority for me lately. Back in late March we found out that our dog Scooby was suffering from Spinal Ataxia.  Spinal ataxia is when the spinal cord is compressed and the message from the brain cannot get to the hind end of the dog in most cases, so he had the drunk wobbles as I called them.  That day we had done a ton of X-rays and so fourth at the vets office so we decided to give the medications a try.  With out the medications he could barely walk without falling all the time, so we tried the medications.  One med was for the actual compression of the spinal cord a pain blocker and the other was for pain management.  We tried these medications for a month to see how we felt about them, and they didn't help as much as we thought they would and the pain management medication he just threw up every time. Scooby

Recently ( like as in today ) I visited the establishment Americas Best.  My Dr closed his private practice and moved there.  So I arrive 20  minutes early to fill out the paperwork, while I was filling out the paperwork the front desk staff seemed to be malfunctioning ( only proper word for it ).  The lady on the phone was rolling her eyes and asking me questions at the same time.  ( um i can't make this up )  Then I get shuttled back for my glaucoma test lovely I hate that test, but to make matters worse the technician was EATING during my exam which is disgusting while trying to administer my test of which you touch my eyes!  GROSS!!!!!   While I waited for an hour an 15 minutes for my exam the rolling eye girl was going on and on and on about some patient, if I can hear you I bet we all can, complaints and all.  I finally get seen tell the DR what all happened he apologized and said he would address it.  Cool no problem.  UNTIL I sat down to check out of my appointment, rollin

I recently watched a video online about relationships and it got me thinking about respect within the relationship.  The number one killer the video stated as an issue within relationships was FACEBOOK and or INSTAGRAM.  The video also stated that it was mainly men who like over sexualized photos of other women than their significant other, but women do it too.  I have a huge crush on Matthew McConaughy like HUGE,  I tell my husband all the time.  But what Im talking about is very different from a crush.   Im talking about liking others photos that are too overly sexual to be on FB or Instagram.  I really start to wonder if anyone cares about their own self respect?  I see more and more women wearing the shortest shorts ever to show off their bum or the tightest shirts to show off their chest.  Men aren't any better theyre willing to almost bear it all for their views, just holding a towel over their privates.  I don't even want to talk about the impression that it makes on y

I haven't written in awhile, not because I haven't wanted too but Ive had so many ideas that I couldn't figure out what I was really trying to say.  Yesterday the entire world celebrated Valentines Day.  I woke up to the most awesome love note (made me cry), then spent the day doing things for myself.   I had a friend ask me the other day what makes a marriage happy or makes it tick, funny I had just read an article that I loved by Tom Hanks about this very topic, my response was "I genuinely like my husband as a person he's my favorite to be around".  Now, now, this doesn't mean we don't bicker out of love or even have arguments.   This means he's my favorite person no matter my mood, no matter whats going on in my life or his I just want to be close to him.   We can be in the same house and not talking but just being in the same house is my comfort.  My husband LOVES to play video games after a day at work and I LOVE to go ride my horse after wo

Not long ago to be exact about it 4 or 5 years ago, I was told that I had no direction in life because I changed career paths a lot!  Its not that I didn't have direction, but the paths I was taking wasn't giving me fulfillment in life and probably led to a lot of other things that happened too.  I don't blame them though I have rather honestly embraced change on a constant level ( except if I have an extremely set plan ), been faced with people telling me no I can't do that because they didn't agree with it.  Ive opened 3 successful companies one of which Ive coupled with another and the other a small investment company with my father.  So embrace your dreams, embrace your goals, don't let anyone define success for you, thats only for you to decide!  Embrace the criticism, embrace the unknown put yourself in uncomfortable situations because you know it'll scare the shit out of you! Go after the things you want wholeheartedly and don't worry about the n

Im a firm believer that if we haven't learned a lesson that the universe is trying to teach us, we will repeat the same thing until its learned!  Lately, I feel as if this has happened to me.  I've had somethings happen to me in my personal life that have tested my trust and the words people have used.  Sometimes, I begin to wonder why its always this same thing when I know in my heart its because Im a loving, caring, giving, generous person that people tend to take advantage of.    What is the right answer for people when the trust in a friendship is tested?  Im not sure there is a definitive right answer for people.  Some people choose to talk about it and everything is cool until it happens again, others choose to lead with positives and not negatives.  I personally give a huge amount of time and effort until I realize whats going on and I  give people second chances that I shouldn't.    So heres to the good heart with the good fight to strive to make all friendships

I wonder what this world would look like if all women supported other women instead of bashing them constantly?  Lately this has been on my mind because I see it happen frequently and Im not gonna lie I can act like this and be just at judgmental sometimes myself so theres no sugar coating there.  Women are a very intriguing breed if you will call it that, theres so many different sides to a womans personality. What I want to know is are we programmed to be so vicious all the time?  Am I overly sensitive to the world where I notice this and Im like can we please stop with the constant cut downs ladies.  I can't take it anymore.  The fact is this, be friends with women who you can support because they have the same goals/ values and morals as you, IF they don't then don't support them but also don't be fake about it.  We can all learn to love people from a distant if we truly want the best for them, sometimes as human beings morals goal values ect don't add up and t

 Recently I had a friend ask me how my business was doing, I said Im thriving, Im not where I want to be yet professionally.  Im definitely happy with how Im running things and how well I have done in 6 months time!  I want to break things down for my viewers and start from my story in 2013 which a majority of you if you know me personally know already.  I wasn't always this happy nor did I understand that happiness was created from within oneself.  I thought happiness was depending on other people to run my life, make all my decisions for me, or buying things I didn't need.  I thought relationships were great if people needed me constantly to help them but I got nothing in return but a huge slap in the face.  I also had this idea about how I should look and I starved myself eating little to no food to loose weight even though I knew better because of my education and background in Food and Nutrition.   I hold a Masters Degree in Food and Nutrition which oddly enough made me m

 The other day I was browsing Facebook and a family member of mine had posted about this documentary on Netflix called the Minimalist.  So this morning my body isn't getting along well with me and I have a cold and I was up at the insane hour of 4 AM so I figured Id watch this.  So in thought the title gives it away or so you think, and to find out more about the documentary you should watch it but in short here it goes.  In todays society were taught that the more money we make the more successful we are, the more things we buy the happier we will be and the more we look like so damn TV ad or model the more love we will receive.  We can all sit here and say that yeah we all know this isn't the case but then let me ask the question then WHY DO WE GIVE INTO THIS?  Were all guilty of buying crap we don't need to feel better about ourselves because we can shell out X amount of dollars for said item.  Why is keeping up with the JONESES more important to us that actually having